Name: Eco-Lit Series
Start: 2025-04-12T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-12T12:00:00-05:00
Location: N3941 Golf Course Road, Brodhead, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53520

Description: Join Tracy Burandt, National Board Certified Teacher of English Language Arts, at Three Waters Reserve for three monthly sessions to explore literature about nature with a community of the curious. Our monthly readings will be rooted in Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, and will also incorporate complementary readings by other great poets and prose writers. A link or alternate packet of the readings will be provided prior to the sessions. During each session, you will have the opportunity to explore the natural and restored landscapes of TWR and reflect, observe, and write or sketch. Voluntary sharing of your own work or other writing you have discovered will be encouraged!
Eco-Lit Session I: The March of Spring
Saturday, March 22nd, 2025, 10:00am–12:00pm
Essential Question: What can human societies learn from geese?
Readings will include: The Geese Return and Marshland Elegy (Aldo Leopold), Wild Geese and Worm Moon (Mary Oliver), and others.
Eco-Lit Session II: April, Come She Will
Saturday, April 12th, 2025, 10:00am–12:00pm
Essential Question: How are the tools of inquiry and observation useful to both the naturalist and the writer?
Readings will include: Come High Water; Draba; Bur Oak; Sky Dance (Aldo Leopold), Spring (Edna St. Vincent Millay), A Sleepless Night (Philip Levine), and others.
Eco-Lit Session III: May-Flower
Saturday, May 10th, 2025, 10:00am–12:00pm
Essential Question: What makes a species valuable?
Readings will include: Back from the Argentine and Green Fire (Aldo Leopold), May-Flower (Emily Dickinson), and others.
More Information:
Location: Three Waters Reserve, N3941 Golf Course Rd, Brodhead, WI
The class sessions will gather in the lower level of Three Waters Reserve, the headquarters of the Lower Sugar River Field Station.
What to bring: Please dress for the weather, and bring a notebook or journal. A blanket or chair is optional
Register by: March 21st, 2025
Cost: $30.00
Email Registration: If you do not wish to purchase tickets online, you can register by email at, [email protected], (subject) ECO-LIT CLASS, list which sessions you plan to attend. Pay by check to LSRWA mailed to Attn: ECO-LIT CLASS, LSRWA, N3941 Golf Course Rd, Brodhead, WI 53520, or pay with cash or check the day of the session.